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I Can Think of 75 Billion Reasons Why Google Doesn’t Like Adblockers

It appears Google is cracking down on adblocking apps in the Google Play store. Hmm. So here’s the backstory,as reported by TechCrunch. Samsung recently released a new Content Blocker API, which allows third-party developers to make apps that block ads in the latest version of Samsung’s Internet browser app. One of the first to crop…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Samsung Will Unveil the Galaxy S7 in Three Weeks

Samsung loves turning a phone launch into a literal song and dance, and it looks like the launch of “The Next Galaxy” will be more of the same. According to a teaser video just published, Samsung’s next phone(s) will be unveiled February 21st in Barcelona. The timing and location are designed to overshadow Mobile World…

Gadgets Chris Mills

This Week’s Tech Rumors, Smartphone Edition

As we inch closer and closer to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where we’re expecting smartphones aplenty, the rumor engines are currently cranked to eleven. New small iPhone details? MicroSD-equipped Galaxy?! Surfacephone.com?!? A brief ratings refresher: 💩= Likelihood is very high 💩💩= Probably going to happen, but there’s room for doubt 💩💩💩= Could go either…

Tech News Darren Orf

Apple, Samsung and Sony Linked to Child Labor Claims in Cobalt Mines

A new report by Amnesty International claims that Apple, Samsung and Sony are consistently failing to perform the basic checks which are required to ensure that mining operations for essential minerals do not take advantage of child labor. The report focuses on cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)—the origin of 50 percent…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Samsung Will Help Qualcomm Produce Its Next-Gen Snapdragon 820 Chip

When it’s not churning out smartphones and giant tablets and uh, giant container ships, Samsung also does healthy business manufacturing microprocessors. It does such a good job, in fact, that chip-making rival Qualcomm will be using Samsung’s foundries for its next big thing. The Snapdragon 820 was announced late last year. It’s a chip you’re…

Gadgets Chris Mills

The Future of TV Is Beautifully Boring and That’s a Good Thing

You could say that, historically, televisions are the star of CES. After all, it was at CES in 1998 that the world saw the first ever high-definition TVs. Plasma TVs debuted at CES in 2001, and OLEDs appeared in 2008. This year, however, everything was pretty damn boring. That’s not a bad thing. The most…

Gadgets Adam Clark Estes

I’m Totally Hypnotized By Samsung’s Dancing Modular TV

When the TV explodes into eight individual panels, my mind exploded. The black bars that appear on the top and bottom of your TV screen could be a thing of the past if Samsung ever brings this crazy modular TV panel concept to the world. Samsung’s showcasing a concept at CES in which square panels…

Gadgets Mario Aguilar

How Does This GIF Make You Feel About the Future?

I’m enthusiastic about the prospects for virtual reality. The virtual reality roller coaster, however, makes me feel conflicted. Contact the author at [email protected].

Gadgets Mario Aguilar

Who Cares What the Back of a TV Looks Like?

Over the past few days I’ve heard top executives from two massive electronics companies brag about the design of their television. Normal! Well, it would be if they weren’t talking about the backs of their televisions. The photo below was taken at the Sony booth at CES just a short while after the Sony North…

Gadgets Mario Aguilar

Samsung’s Chromebook 3 Goes 11 Hours on a Charge and Shrugs Off Drops

Samsung has quietly announced its new Chromebook 3, bumping the specs compared to its predecessors while also providing it with longer battery life and a metal body that can shrug off drops. After announcing its impressive Notebook 9 laptops with some fanfare, Samsung didn’t make much fuss over the new Chromebook. But for those after…

Gadgets Jamie Condliffe

Samsung’s New Notebook 9 Laptops Are Preposterously Light

Laptop minimalism is a wonderful thing. With its new Notebook 9-series laptops, due early this year, Samsung takes reductionist design to a very attractive extreme. Here’s the bottom line: The new 13.3-inch and 15-inch Notebook 9 laptops are full-power Windows 10 machines that weigh just 1.85 pounds and 2.84 pounds respectively. These are not Intel…

Gadgets Mario Aguilar

Samsung Just (Almost) Killed the TV Bezel

Today, Samsung is showing off its newest line of SUHD TVs. If you can believe it, they’re outrageously beautiful. They’ve got some performance improvements and new blah blah connectivity features, but what’s most striking is the way that Samsung’s creeping towards that platonic ideal of a bezel-less design: A television whose picture is hanging there…

Gadgets Mario Aguilar

Samsung’s Adorably Tiny SSD Now Wraps 2TB in a Tougher Metal Housing

When first revealed at CES last year, Samsung boasted that its Portable SSD T1, which put a full terabyte of speedy flash-based storage inside a credit card-sized housing, could eventually see capacities of up to 16GB in a few years. That’s not too hard to believe, because exactly one year later, it’s already grown to…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Samsung’s New TV Remotes Will Control Your Whole Set-Up

It’s very easy indeed to end up with a sofa arm littered with button-clad boxes. But while after-market multi-device controllers exist, Samsung plans to solve the problem straight out of the box with its new smart TV remotes. Its 2016 smart TVs will arrive with a new Smart Control remote, which will serve “as a…

Gadgets Jamie Condliffe

Samsung’s New Soundbar Doesn’t Need Speakers in Your Ceiling for 3-D Audio

Soundbars aren’t normally the go-to option for crazy immersive surround sound, but a Samsung-Dolby partnership is hoping to change that. Using a pair of rear speakers, a soundbar and the ceiling of your den, Samsung’s trying to recreate the 3-D feeling of a Dolby Atmos cinema. http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/dolby-atmos-the-incredible-prototype-cinema-behind-the-future-of-movie-sound/ Atmos is meant to be the final evolution…

Gadgets Chris Mills

Samsung’s Latest Transformative Gadget Is… a Smart Belt?

Samsung just revealed the first class of gadgets to emerge from its Creative Lab projects. They’re creative alright! Topping the list of shiny new things from the Korean electronics giant is a smart belt called WELT. Yes, you heard that right. Samsung describes WELT as “a smart wearable healthcare belt that looks like a normal…

Gadgets Adam Clark Estes

Does Anybody Understand the Growing Obsession With Smart Rings?

As soon as powerful processors were tiny enough to pack into your pocket, companies big and small have been hunting for other ways they can strap tech onto our bodies. Fitness trackers and smartwatches were only the beginning, and if the last few months worth of patents divine wearables’ near future, smart rings are next.…

Tech News Darren Orf

Samsung’s New Galaxy A9: Huge Screen, Massive Battery

Samsung has announced the latest in its A series of phones at an event in China today. The Galaxy A9 is a slight departure compared to the svelte A8, with a monstrous screen and battery capacity to match. The new phone features a massive 6-inch screen—it’s a 1080p AMOLED panel for those who care about…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

HTC Wants to Send Its Vive VR Headset to 100,000 Chinese Internet Cafes

To make virtual reality truly popular, you have to make cheap and accessible. And HTC is zeroing in on a huge market: Chinese internet cafes. It’s the latest example of tech companies worldwide trying to get VR in the hands of massive groups of users, quickly and cheaply. At a VR conference in Beijing last…

Gadgets Bryan Lufkin

WSJ: Samsung Galaxy S7 Will Have Pressure-Sensitive Screen, Fast Charging

When Samsung’s Galaxy S7 arrives in March, it may borrow one of the iPhone 6S’s biggest new features. The Wall Street Journal reports that the company plans to add a pressure-sensitive display to the new handset. The newspaper explains that, according to “people familiar with the matter,” the phone may also feature a fast-charging USB…

Gadgets Jamie Condliffe

I Can Think of 75 Billion Reasons Why Google Doesn’t Like Adblockers

Samsung Will Unveil the Galaxy S7 in Three Weeks

This Week’s Tech Rumors, Smartphone Edition

Apple, Samsung and Sony Linked to Child Labor Claims in Cobalt Mines

Samsung Will Help Qualcomm Produce Its Next-Gen Snapdragon 820 Chip

The Future of TV Is Beautifully Boring and That’s a Good Thing

I’m Totally Hypnotized By Samsung’s Dancing Modular TV

How Does This GIF Make You Feel About the Future?

Who Cares What the Back of a TV Looks Like?

Samsung’s Chromebook 3 Goes 11 Hours on a Charge and Shrugs Off Drops

Samsung’s New Notebook 9 Laptops Are Preposterously Light

Samsung Just (Almost) Killed the TV Bezel

Samsung’s Adorably Tiny SSD Now Wraps 2TB in a Tougher Metal Housing

Samsung’s New TV Remotes Will Control Your Whole Set-Up

Samsung’s New Soundbar Doesn’t Need Speakers in Your Ceiling for 3-D Audio

Samsung’s Latest Transformative Gadget Is… a Smart Belt?

Does Anybody Understand the Growing Obsession With Smart Rings?

Samsung’s New Galaxy A9: Huge Screen, Massive Battery

HTC Wants to Send Its Vive VR Headset to 100,000 Chinese Internet Cafes

WSJ: Samsung Galaxy S7 Will Have Pressure-Sensitive Screen, Fast Charging

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